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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 51-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In line 75, what word does the speaker use to characterize his boyhood pleasures?
(a) "Heedless."
(b) "Foolish."
(c) "Coarser."
(d) "Sweeter."

2. What techniques are evidence in line 88's phrase "nor mourn nor murmur"?
(a) Parallelism and consonance.
(b) Consonance and antithesis.
(c) Cacophony and parallelism.
(d) Antithesis and cacophony.

3. What technique is employed when the speaker calls the view "food" for future years (line 66)?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What sets line 22, "The Hermit sits alone," apart from the preceding 21 lines?
(a) Its perspective.
(b) Its tone.
(c) Its length.
(d) Its syntax.

5. What is emphasized by the unusual word order in line 78's "What then I was"?
(a) The speaker's ego.
(b) The speaker's distance from the past.
(c) The speaker's eccentricity.
(d) The speaker's philosophical nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the river the speaker is near?

2. What is the best definition of "cataract" in the context of line 78?

3. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

4. Which is the best definition of "perplexity" in the context of line 62?

5. What "still sad music" does the speaker hear when he looks at the landscape (93)?

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